Friday 14 January 2011
Nigeria is recording the highest rates of newborn death toll in Africa, with 241,000 babies dying in the first month of life every year, a new Ministry of Health report, ‘Saving Newborn Lives in Nigeria’ has revealed.
Friday 14 January 2011
The party is calling for the country to be divided into two separate entities, claiming that the Matabeleland region is heavily marginalized. It has since fired a salvo dismissing other parties in the region as not representative of the Matabeleland region.
Thursday 13 January 2011
A partnership featuring Safaricom Foundation and Kenya Community Development Fund (KCDF) is working within Kenya’s Eastern province to transform the area from food insecurity and dependence on food aid to food sufficiency.
Wednesday 12 January 2011
A number of names are being bandied around even before the results of the plebiscite are announced.
Wednesday 12 January 2011
UN agency reports paint a bright outlook as the South votes to secede
Tuesday 11 January 2011
Technology firm HP and African social enterprise, mPedigree Network have introduced a potentially life-saving service that targets counterfeit pharmaceuticals by enabling people in Nigeria and Ghana to easily check the authenticity of their malaria medication.
Monday 10 January 2010
UN bodies call for Nigerian authorities to take action
Thursday 6 January 2010
Accused by opponents of ineptitude towards fighting corrupt friends,
President Jakaya Kikwete appears to focus on giving the country a new
constitution in a bid to leave behind a lasting legacy.
Wednesday 05 December 2010
In a bid to end conflict minerals in eastern Congo, Enough Project, an anti-genocide lobby group based in Washington has enlisted the support of electronic companies whose products are manufactured using minerals extracted from the conflict zone.
Thursday 23 December 2010
Paula Donovan and Stephen Lewis, Co-Directors, AIDS-Free World Thursday expressed a worrying trend on the rising number of African leaders openly opposed to expression of sexual rights among the gay and the lesbian.
Wednesday 22 December 2010
Rights body says defenceless people need urgent protection from escalating violence.
Tuesday 21 December 2010
Alarm bells sounded over misconception that circumcised men cannot contract HIV
Friday 17 December 2010
Corruption in the mining sector has impoverished most of the miners, fuelling conflict in the country’s diamond rich areas
Wednesday 15 December 2010
Malaria cases are diminishing in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa after a huge effort in the last two years to get bed nets and indoor spraying into areas where the disease is endemic, but the gains are fragile, according to the World Health Organisation.
Tuesday 14 December 2010
The awards were sponsored by the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE), in partnership with UNDP, the National Aids Control Council (NACC), the joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the International Labour Organisation ( ILO).
